Amber Ruffin

Amber Mildred Ruffin (born January 9, 1979)[1] is an American comedian and writer.[2] She has been a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers since 2014. When she joined the show, she became the first black woman to write for a late-night network talk show in the United States.[3][4]

Ruffin first began performing in 2001 in local theater productions in her hometown. She later moved to Chicago where she studied improv at the iO Theater. She moved to Amsterdam in 2008 to work as a writer and performer on the improv comedy troupe Boom Chicago. She performed as part of The Second City in both Denver and Chicago, where she first met future Late Night co-writer Jenny Hagel. Ruffin moved to Los Angeles in 2011 where she joined the YouTube comedy team RobotDown and appeared on an episode of Key & Peele.[6] In 2014, she auditioned for a part on Saturday Night Live, but was hired by Seth Meyers to write for Late Night with Seth Meyers instead.[7]